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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 07/10/2026

just think: boycotting the Harry Potter show means hurting JK Rowling AND the Ellisons now

Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What are the odds the intern who buys his suits is taking the money for Bironi, buying JAB, and pocketing the difference?

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The world is bad, but I'm psyched for this: youtu.be/3JWEGVpNIiQ

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What I'm saying is, I don't think Chevy wanted to make this, and I definitely don't think they want to keep making it. They're doing none of the things an OEM does when they actually want to move units. And I suspect part of that is specifically for the narrative.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hmmm, there's more going on here. Like for one, a lease on one of these is $400+ while near me an Ioniq 5 lease is as low as $200. This thing feels cheap as hell inside. Chevy ditched Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. MSRP isn't the best metric for perceived value.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's Banned Books Week. My fellow librarians, listen carefully: your book displays should be almost exclusively writers who are alive. Yes, I know classic literature is also being banned, but most of those authors are dead. They aren't suffering financially from bans and challenges.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One thing a lot internet commentators really don't get is that advertising works. I'm not making a value judgement on advertising, but if your world view only accounts for people who don't watch, engage with, and get influenced by ads, you're missing something.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The whole Wandavision trilogy being about parents failing to cope with their inability to protect their children no matter how much power they have.

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We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s #BannedBooksWeek, which means it’s the perfect time to dispel common myths and misconceptions about the prevalence and impacts of book bans across the United States. Here are five common myths about book banning that everyone should know the truth about 🧵

Gold-colored graphic depicting an illustration of a group of young people lounging in a book store, sitting on the hardwood floor, and reading books together. There are illustrations of bookshelves decorated with books, knick knacks, plants, and cactuses in the background. The graphic is titled “5 Myths You Should Know About Book Banning”.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Next you can go door to door dropping off flyers telling people what you sold recent books for, and to keep you in mind when they're ready to publish!

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I spent a not insignificant portion of the 90s fantasizing that everything would go all sparkly for a second and I'd find myself looking at Chief O'Brien.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today my wife said, "I'm tired." And the kiddo said, "Hi tired, I'm Ezra." And as my wife looked on incredulously, we high-fived.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are people who write just to create a product. I've met some, my friends have ghost-written for some. But in every genre there are people who write for the process, who engage with intent to create and communicate. You can't make a determination about art and artistry based on genre.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Joker 2 is already one of the most important movies of the century for retroactively defanging Joker 1 as a manosphere fantasist recruitment vector. If only we'd had a Fight Club 2 25 years ago

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula Although, to be fair, I'm not sure if this version of Man-bat used vampire bat DNA or not....

A comic book cover from the 70s where Batman is interrupting Man-bat's wedding by tearing a human mask off his bat head while saying"I know why it must not be...this is why!" And the priest is saying, "g-gasp" and the caption, against all probability, reads "Marriage: Impossible"

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But the dash to axle ratio! It's all-new!

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is... evil. Like, the complete collapse of multiple ethics.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI is incapable of making decisions with intention, and intention is the root of art. Why would I accept the opinions of something that is fundamentally incapable of creating, understanding, or appreciating art?

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Martha van Dalen @marthavandalen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

WHO WILL WIN: A woman with a personality disorder, a gambling compulsion, and a knack for cheating at cards VS The Queen of the Dead?? Get your bets in now!! The odds are long on the human winning. But we all love an underdog. #A #H #F #LGBT #OWN #DVPit #Necromantasy

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The country would be better off with the Republicans out of power and Dems who are willing to throw trans people and Palestinians into the grinder while bowing to corporate interests don't deserve your vote just for their party allegiance are both true statements.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't know what Choosin' Texas is and I brought an iced coffee into an interview as the interviewer. Am I living the discourse correctly?

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I want the follow up video of this person throwing out pounds of wilted produce they left uncovered and two dead banzai trees.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

WTF happened to Onitsuka Tigers? I was buying the slip ons for like 70 before they disappeared, now they're back at like $200? Insane!!

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 27/09/2026

coming soon FEAR THEM 🌌

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Once you really internalize that you must just not care, you're really fucked. Worse than nihilism. I must not care about this thing, or I'd do it. Guess I'll just quit. I must not care about this person, or I'd do this. Guess I'll ghost them. That's some deep poison.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've been on and off meds because of side effects, but getting targeted therapy and tools designed for ADHD has given me a framework to raise the floor of my worst days, and ways to keep pushing forward.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Getting re-diagnosed as an adult changed my life, because I could look at myself and my inner turmoil and struggles in a new light. It gave me permission to fight again, because decades of internalizing those messages left me feeling like I was inherently something that couldn't change.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was diagnosed as a child and my parents hid that from me, believing I could be "tough loved" out of ADHD. Instead of getting tools that could hell, I spent my childhood internalizing that I was lazy and didn't care enough or else I'd just TRY, that I was letting myself and everyone down.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A kitted Ariya is definitely future "weird car" royalty

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My laptop was running scalding hot while all I was doing was writing. I wound up turning off Office updates, then deleting the AI folders from the Office directory. Now my laptop runs cool and my battery lasts. I think it's time to switch to Linux.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Start every comment or question with, "okay, some context first..."

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

He's absolutely doing this for his presidential run: racking up corporate favors for donations and clout, tallying up those transphobe point centrist Dems are convinced the need, getting a little "states rights"-ish with women's bodily autonomy... He is a man with no beliefs or convictions.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That's true. I did spend a lot of time retrieving all the artifacts. But in large part because I was so invested in the story!

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Huh, I didn't think of Control as a metroidvania. Things are gated and you'll be backtracking, but the narrative focus of the game means the story is clear about where to go and you're usually unlocking something a lot more interesting than another samey room.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I loved Control, and I'm really psyched for the sequel, but Nivalis Nights is coming out a few days later and honestly that goes higher on my "to be played" list than Control.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Starting a petition to film a show about Toronto in Los Angeles.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Don't forget that he vetoed ranked choice voting in CA

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Where is an American-built, non-DI, 4-cyl motor going to come from...and last 500k miles? It's 100% vaporware.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Every tech "revolution" or "disruption" is at heart about eroding worker power. Studios chased streaming off a cliff because it was dangling the promise that you could make film and TV without ever having to pay residuals again.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Here's a picture of me in 1985 holding hands with a giant robotic Heinz ketchup bottle. I have zero context for this.

A handsome young man about 3 years of age, wearing a distinguished sweater vest, holds hands with a ketchup bottle approximately twice his height that, for some reason, has stubby little robot arms.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Retcon everything back to the end of Season 1 and then set the new Doctor the mission of restoring everyone's favorite ships to reality except his power is tied to viewership so you better watch or those characters will canonically never have existed.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

👇👇👇👇

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Who toxes the toxicity scorers?

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